The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-09

ton, that it may be fashioned like unto
his glorious body, according to the
working whereby he is able to subdue
all things unto himself"
A corresponding change is to be
wrought on the inner life, included, in
deed, in this promise, eliminating the
disOrdered, distempered elements which
now fill us with unrest and self-dis
gust. Glow happy one would be-"
exclaims Madame du Deffand, "If one
could throw off oneself, as one can
throw off others but one is perforce
oneself, and very little in accord with
oneself" 1t is sense of misfit with
our nature and environment, which
finds an all-sufficient corrective in the
faultless, harmonious, saving life of
Jesus, as the discordant instrument is
brought into tune by the master.
'God has given to us eternal life, and
this life is in his Son." John, v. IL.
1t is this self disquiet, this conscious
moral adjustment, and inability, this
inward yearning that prompts the cry
responsive to the call of Jesus, Come
unto me and will give you rest -
Just as l am, poor, wretched, blind.
Sight riches. healing for the mind,
Yea, all want, in thee to find,
Oh, Lamb of God. { come"
1t may be objected that these prom
ises of God apply only to those who
receive Jesus as their Saviour, and thus
appropriate the life and rest he offers.
There is, indeed, an immediate advant-
age to such, in the quickened powers,
the enlarged vision, the hopes, helps,
knowledge, assurance and salvation re-
ceived. BLESSED and holy is he that
hath part in the first resurrection, on
such the second death has no power"
Rev. Xxx. 6 While not excusing those
who "forsake their own mercy" in re-
fusing him, this does not neutralize the
force OF the all-comprehensive promise,
ultimately to be fulfilled by one who
has spoken and cannot lie: LAS in Adam
all die, even 50 in Christ shall all be
made alive" Il Cor XIV. %
Again This associates with the re-
surrection, companionship and the COM
munion of saints; in him God is pre-
pairing the society Of the Blessed; it is
he who says, 81 go to prepare a place
for you and 1 will come again and
receive you unto myself" The chief
apostle states as the first yearning Of
his heart THAT 1 may know him, and
the power of his resurrection. Glori-
GUS acquaintanceship 1t is one pow
erful incentive to an earnest obedience
to his voice, to be able to say, unto
US who believe, heis, indeed, precious, !"
and thus SO filled with confiding love,
as to cry:
"0h, if my Lord would come and meet,
| My soul would stretch her wings Ia haste,
| Fly swiftly through deaths iron gate
Nor view the terror as she passed.
There is loneliness in the idea of
eternity from which we shrink; it is felt
in this world in scenes of stupendous
sublimity, in the mountains, by the
seashore there is profound meaning
| in the word, which, telling of the COM
ing of the Lord and the gladness which
attends it, says, 1.-THE mountains and
the hills shall break forth into singing;n
their solemn grandeur relieved at last
by participation in the general burst
of joy. Much of the speculation as to
the future warrants this lonely feeling
in its sombre and spectral character.
Thus, in Miss Phelps's Beyond the
Gates" the best thing in her weird
picture is when the one, who in a
trance describes what she sees in heav-
en-, awakens and finds she is in her own
chamber, in the dear old home, her
mother tenderly bending over her, a
glorious sunset flaming in the skies and
flooding The room with splendor, and
she is told she is eonvalescent. 1t is
home and health, life and loved ones
which concludes Beyond the Gates"
Nothing could better define it; the
home idea, as the Saviour calls it, 'My
Fathers house," and as it is said of
him, "Of whom the whole family in
earth and in heaven are named;" the
family-and the familiar view of heav-
en-; not great concert hall; or eeles-
tial court; not galleries as in an am
phitheater; not spheres" and Circles"
but the Father, the Saviour, the family,
"All one in Christ Jesus" This same
Jesus, to HON, when on earth, the
people drew so lovingly, mothers bring
ing their little ones that he might put
his hands on them; whom the multitude
thronged in their eagerness, running
on foot out of their cities, and could
not get near enough to him, wanted al
ways to be with him, remaining three
days fasting, oblivious to even the de-
mands of hunger, and had, finally, to
be sent away,-Our hiding place." our
refuge, from our sins, from ourselves,
from our misgivings, and dark and
baleful fancies, just as a mother is
refuge to her loved child from grief